Today I harvested the year’s first broad beans at the Væres Venner Community Garden where KVANN (Norwegian Seed Savers) are developing a garden:
I also harvested the first potatoes at home…and the year’s first falafels resulted with new potatoes for dinner. The falafels were flavoured with salt, pepper, shallots, chili and golpar (ground seed of any species of Heracleum or hogweed) which gives a delicious exotic flavour!
Heracleum sibiricum gives the local variant of golpar here…most people have a local variety of hogweed to harvest, even Giant Hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum) or Tromso palm (H. persicum), the latter giving the most authentic Iranian golpar spice.
Allium tuncelianum (Tunceli garlic) is an endemic to Eastern Turkey, tasting apparently like garlic and wild collected locally and used like garlic. It is most closely related to Allium ampeloprasum (leek group).
Allium tuncelianum (Tunceli garlic) is also an edimental
Allium tuncelianum (Tunceli garlic)
Allium meteoricum
Allium acutiflorum
Allium acutiflorum
Allium stellatum
Allium ovalifolium with backdrop of Patrinia
Allium ovalifolium
Allium ovalifolium
Skallot
Allium wallichii
Allium wallichii
Allium wallichii
Allium wallichii
Allium tuncelianum in bud
Allium tuncelianum in bud
Perennial vegetables, Edimentals (plants that are edible and ornamental) and other goings on in The Edible Garden